If you're writing about how active a place is, what its weather is like or how long people spend getting to work, these tables may save you a download. Each is a public dataset from a U.S. agency, cut to the places this site covers, with the source and vintage printed beside the numbers.
They are free to reuse with a link back to the page, as each download line says, and with credit to the agency that owns the data, as each page asks. The agencies don't endorse this site; the metro, city and commute pages print the CDC's and the Census Bureau's own notices saying so. Every page says how and when its figures were fetched, and how this site checks its numbers is on the editorial policy.
Before you quote a row
- Read the interval. Survey figures come with a confidence interval or margin of error. Where two rows' ranges overlap, the pages don't call one higher, and neither should a headline.
- Keep the products apart. The state, metro and city activity tables come from three different CDC products, and the pages say not to compare them directly.
- A weather row is one station. The climate tables read one NOAA station near each metro's first-named city, not a metro average, so the station's name and distance are printed in each row.
How active is your state?
- What it holds: the share of adults reporting no leisure-time physical activity, and the share doing muscle-strengthening activities on two or more days a week.
- Rows: every state and DC.
- Source and vintage: the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, from its Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity: the most recent year the CDC publishes for each state, printed in its own column.1
- Get it: the page and the CSV.
Cite it as: the CDC, not this site. In the page's words, a link back "is appreciated but the data are theirs."
How active is your metro?
- What it holds: adults reporting no physical activity in the past month, and adults doing muscle-strengthening exercises two or more times a week, each with its 95% confidence interval and year.
- Rows: 48 big metro areas, each as a whole; eight of them have no recent CDC figure and are printed as absent.
- Source and vintage: the CDC's Selected Metropolitan Area Risk Trends (SMART) prevalence data, rows from 2023 or later.2
- Get it: the page and the CSV.
Cite it as: the CDC, not this site. The page prints the CDC's notice in full, as its reuse terms ask; it begins "Source: CDC."
How active is your city?
- What it holds: adults with no leisure-time physical activity and adults reporting short sleep, under seven hours, both age-adjusted, with 95% confidence intervals.
- Rows: 27 U.S. cities (Census places).
- Source and vintage: the CDC's PLACES 2025 release, model-based estimates built on 2023 survey answers for activity and 2022's for sleep.3 The page says plainly not to compare it with the state or metro tables.
- Get it: the page and the CSV.
Cite it as: the CDC, not this site, with the CDC's notice the page prints.
Summer heat by metro
- What it holds: days a year at or above 90 F and the average July high, at one NOAA station per metro (name, ID and distance).
- Rows: 48 big metros; San Francisco and San Jose have no figure, for the reasons the page gives.
- Source and vintage: NOAA's U.S. Climate Normals for 1991 to 2020, annual and monthly.4,5
- Get it: the page and the CSV.
Cite it as: Palecki, M., Durre, I., Applequist, S., Arguez, A., Lawrimore, J. (2021). U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Monthly Climate Normals (1991-2020) and U.S. Annual/Seasonal Climate Normals (1991-2020). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.
Winter cold by metro
- What it holds: the average January low at the same stations.
- Rows: the same 48 metros, with the same two absent.
- Source and vintage: NOAA's monthly U.S. Climate Normals for 1991 to 2020.5
- Get it: the page and the CSV.
Cite it as: NOAA, with the citation above for the U.S. Monthly Climate Normals (1991-2020).
Rain by metro
- What it holds: average annual precipitation in inches (rain, plus snow and ice counted as the water they melt to), at one NOAA station per metro; a dagger marks a partial record.
- Rows: the 40 metro areas that have a page on this site; San Jose has no figure, for the reason in its row.
- Source and vintage: NOAA's annual U.S. Climate Normals for 1991 to 2020.4
- Get it: the page and the CSV.
Cite it as: NOAA, with the same citation for the U.S. Annual/Seasonal Climate Normals (1991-2020).
Commute times by state
- What it holds: the mean travel time to work for workers who don't work from home, and the share of workers who work from home, each with its 90% margin of error.
- Rows: all 50 states and DC.
- Source and vintage: the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 2020–2024 five-year estimates, table DP03.6
- Get it: the page and the CSV.
Cite it as: the U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates, table DP03.
Commute times by metro
- What it holds: the same two figures for each metro area as a whole, with margins of error.
- Rows: the 40 metro areas that have a page on this site.
- Source and vintage: the same survey and table, 2020–2024 five-year estimates.7
- Get it: the page and the CSV.
Cite it as: the U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates, table DP03.
If a number looks wrong
Every page links its source, so check the row against the agency. If they disagree, the editorial policy says how to report it.
General education only, not medical advice. If you have a medical condition, are pregnant, or take medication, check with your doctor before changing how you train or eat.
Sources
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity. Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (dataset hn4x-zwk7), questions Q046 and Q047, overall adults, most recent year per state. CDC, data.cdc.gov, 2026. https://data.cdc.gov/Nutrition-Physical-Activity-and-Obesity/Nutrition-Physical-Activity-and-Obesity-Behavioral/hn4x-zwk7 (accessed October 19, 2026).
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Population Health. Behavioral Risk Factors: Selected Metropolitan Area Risk Trends (SMART) MMSA Prevalence Data, 2011 to present (dataset j32a-sa6u), Exercise (_TOTINDA) and Strength Activity (_PASTRNG), overall adults, 2023 or later, 48 metropolitan statistical areas. CDC, data.cdc.gov, 2026. https://data.cdc.gov/resource/j32a-sa6u.json (accessed October 22, 2026).
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Population Health. PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, Place Data, 2025 release (dataset eav7-hnsx), measures LPA (no leisure-time physical activity, BRFSS 2023) and SLEEP (short sleep, BRFSS 2022), age-adjusted prevalence, model-based estimates, 27 places. CDC, data.cdc.gov, 2026. https://data.cdc.gov/resource/eav7-hnsx.json (accessed October 22, 2026).
- Palecki M, Durre I, Applequist S, Arguez A, Lawrimore J. U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Annual/Seasonal Climate Normals (1991-2020). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 2021. https://doi.org/10.25921/4ek7-fk11 (accessed October 22, 2026).
- Palecki M, Durre I, Applequist S, Arguez A, Lawrimore J. U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Monthly Climate Normals (1991-2020), v1.0.1. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 2021. https://doi.org/10.25921/wck8-er13 (accessed October 22, 2026).
- U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020-2024, table DP03 (ACSDP5Y2024.DP03): mean travel time to work (DP03_0025E/M) and worked from home (DP03_0024PE/PM), by state. U.S. Census Bureau, data.census.gov, 2026. https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP5Y2024.DP03 (accessed October 19, 2026).
- U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020-2024, table DP03 (ACSDP5Y2024.DP03): mean travel time to work (DP03_0025E/M) and worked from home (DP03_0024PE/PM), by metropolitan statistical area (310XX00US<CBSA>), 40 metro areas. U.S. Census Bureau, data.census.gov, 2026. https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP5Y2024.DP03 (accessed October 22, 2026).